With his silver favorites and his perpetual look as a grumpy old man, Neil Young can justify the occasional “Neil Old” joke from young audiences who are unfamiliar with his work. However, the Canadian-American singer-songwriter probably doesn’t care, as he has settled several times on the upper echewns of rock royalty, and is also a kind of raw, unpretentious presence that values substance more than style. How modest and raw? Well, as Rolling Stone says, he released the outstanding grunge album Ragged Glory in 1990, before anyone outside Seattle heard about the Array genre… and did it in California, far from the roots of the genre. He was soon known as the “Godfather of the Grunge”, and in 1995 used Flippin ‘Pearl Jam as a group.
The “grunge through the twist of fate with some kind of spearhead” was just a bankruptcy in Young’s nearly six-decade musical career, and was not even the ultimate success. With that in mind, it’s simple to assume that the artist has earned a big penny during his years in the game and, in fact, Neil Young can be much more valuable than you think.
To put things in context, this is Neil Young. The guy who wrote “Heart of Gold,” “Harvest Moon,” “Like a Hurricane,” “Rockin’ in the Free World” and many other all-time classics. He’s Crosby’s young man, Stills, Nash and Young. He was even in a motown band with Rick James. In other words, he probably wouldn’t have done it all, but he definitely gave a whirlwind to all the elements he was interested in.
Besides, Young has been very, very smart about what he does. A quick look at its Billboard page shows that it has had no less than 61 recordings on the Billboard 200 over the years. Knowing this, it is clear that the musician has much more than stuffed animals and holes in his pockets. In fact, according to Celebrity Net Worth wealth estimates, Young’s private fortune is no less than $80 million.